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FORT MYERS — He doesn’t remember how or why, but when he was a boy, at 4 years old, he poked himself in his left eye with a lead pencil. The eye lost its vision. He was bullied about it. “Hey, one eye!” during school. “Can you even see the plate?” while on the mound during Little League games. He shut himself up in his room sometimes and stared in the mirror, looking at the eye. He cried. Later, after the boy became a man and worked in television, the eye still wandered. Viewers called and complained. He opted for surgery to repair it. Then his voice started bothering him, about a decade ago. He was hoarse. Friends called and asked about it. He sat...

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